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...wool sales going again. So, after weeks of deliberation, the wool commission decided to lower its protective floor price 8?, to a more realistic 39? per lb., for the coming year. It hopes that with a bit of luck, the state will have to buy little of the next crop...
...half-brothers or -sisters of an illegitimate sibling. A federal ruling struck down that regulation, but other rules affecting children remain. Currently under attack is Georgia's "employable mothers" law, which allows counties to cut Negro mothers off the family-aid rolls whenever farmers need $2.50-a-day crop pickers. In 21 states, grants may not exceed a stated maximum no matter how many children a family has. Excess children must live in other homes or go hungry...
...convention in 1960, and when he was beaten for re-election as Governor of Minnesota, J.F.K. gave him the questionable consolation of becoming Secretary of Agriculture. In the years since, the durable Freeman has been impaled repeatedly, but never fatally, on the prongs of one sharp controversy after another: crop controls, immense commodity surpluses, the Billie Sol Estes scandal, falling farm income, rising food prices. This week, when Freeman testifies before poverty subcommittees of both the House and the Senate, he will be lucky if he can avoid yet another pitched battle...
After 70% of Israel's hybrid corn crop withered away in 1958, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, suspecting that the disease was spread by an insect, called on Harpaz for aid. By 1959 Harpaz had discovered that the corn blight -which he straightforwardly named Rough Dwarf Maize Disease-was caused by a virus. Coping proved more difficult...
...still deprive the government of $1,000,000 a week in tolls. Then there is cotton, Egypt's second biggest foreign-exchange earner after the canal. Because there is no money to spare for urgently needed insecticides, leafworms threaten to wipe out 30% of this year's crop. In desperation, the government sent almost 500,000 schoolchildren into the fields last week to pick leafworms off the plants. "We have yet another aggression on our hands," noted Cairo's weekly Rose Al Youssef wryly. "We must mobilize...